In 2008 Danielle Singer Moore designed The Pocket Advocate to guide
herself, and those around her, through the various stages of her mental
health diagnosis.

The Pocket Advocate was awarded an innovation and development grant from
the London Borough of Camden, and partnered with The James Wigg
Practice, and The Kentish Town Improvement Fund.

“This is a huge gap in services and the long term social bene ts of
this work would more than outweigh the short term costs.”

- Social Worker, Camden.

In 2012 the government stopped publishing data on mental health
treatment in A&E centres. Based on statistical projections, the
number of people treated for mental health conditions in A&E would
have rocketed from 330,000 in 2002 to more than a million in 2014. 1

This huge rise in crisis relapse & hospital admissions, combined
with a dramatic decrease in the number of psychiatric beds available,
has raised concerns about the adequacy of mental health provision and
quality of care. 2